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Ralph Richardson
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review by A customer from GLASGOW
TOP MOVIE !!! 28 January 2006
review by roncoach from
The best film version of this "ripping yarn" 1902 novel. Recommended. 30 October 2011
review by A customer from Mansfield, England
Pretty Good Hammer Horror 10 March 2007
Ralph Richardson - filmography
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
(1984)
Starring: Paul McCartney, Paul Mccartney, Bryan Brown
Director: Peter Webb
Certificate: 
An engaging musical fantasy about a famous rock star who discovers that the master tapes from his latest album have been stolen. During his frantic search, a number of popular songs are performed, including "Yesterday," "Here, There and Everywhere," and "Eleanor Rigby."
 
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from 6 members
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Invitation To The Wedding
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Paul Nicholas, Ralph Richardson, John Standing
Director: Joseph Brooks
Certificate: 
During the rehearsal for the wedding of Lady Anne (Susan Brooks), David (Paul Nicholas) stands in for the groom. However, due to the pastor's (Ralph Richardson) ineptitude, David finds himself actually married to Lady Anne which is just the beginning of a rollercoaster-ride of disaster.
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from 133 members
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Time Bandits - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Kenny Baker, Ralph Richardson, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Schoolboy Kevin is rescued from his dull suburban life when a gang of dwarves emerge from his wardrobe and carry him off through space and time. Their travels bring them into contact with some leading historical figures; John Cleese is Robin Hood and Sean Connery is Agamemnon in this bizarre comedy ..read more »
69%
from 860 members
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kenny Baker, Ralph Richardson, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Terry Gilliam
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. ..read more »
68%
from 12,804 members
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Watership Down - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Richard Briers
Director: Martin Rosen
Certificate: 
Animated feature of Richard Adams' best-selling novel. When rabbit Fiver (voiced by Richard Briers) has a premonition of his warren being destroyed by man, he persuades his brother Hazel (John Hurt) and a few other friends to flee in search of safety. They have many adventures along the way, until ..read more »
79%
from 154 members
Currently unavailable
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Watership Down
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Richard Briers
Director: Martin Rosen
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Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ever present, portrayed in a manner that is astonishingly ..read more »
70%
from 6,720 members
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The Man In The Iron Mask
(1976)
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Ralph Richardson, Patrick McGoohan
Director: Mike Newell
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Richard Chamberlain takes the dual roles of the titular hero and his elegant twin brother in this adaptation of Dumas' classic swashbuckler. The evil King Louis XIV of France (Chamberlain) kidnaps his righteous brother and has him hidden away in a hideous iron mask to keep him from the throne - but ..read more »
61%
from 459 members
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Rollerball
(1975)
Starring: James Caan, Pamela Hensley, Ralph Richardson
Director: Norman Jewison
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding of ..read more »
62%
from 2,370 members
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O Lucky Man!
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Malcolm McDowell reprises his role as Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's blackly satirical follow-up to 'If....' (1968). Mick is determined to become a success in the business world and gets his first break from Imperial Coffee manager Mr. Duff (Arthur Lowe), who offers him a position as a salesman. ..read more »
71%
from 1,206 member
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Eagle In A Cage
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Kenneth Haigh, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Fielder Cook
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Director Fielder Cook's historical drama tracing the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Kenneth Haigh) while exiled on St Helena. Banished to the volcanic island in the South Atlantic after defeat at Waterloo, France's former Emperor strikes up a friendship with the island's governor, former schoolteacher ..read more »
38%
from 25 members
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Home
(1971)
Starring: Warren Clarke, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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A huge hit on both the London and New York stages, this production was filmed in 1971 with the original cast and director, Academy Award-winning Lindsay Anderson. It follows the interaction of five ageing patients over the course of a single afternoon in the garden of a home for the mentally frail ..read more »
56%
from 126 members
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Oh What A Lovely War
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented as ..read more »
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from 1,483 member
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Battle Of Britain - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
Certificate:
Guy Hamilton's classic war film looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so ..read more »
78%
from 406 members
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Battle Of Britain
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
Certificate:
Guy Hamilton's classic war film looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so ..read more »
73%
from 5,266 members
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The Looking Glass War
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers
Director: Frank R. Pierson
Certificate: 
Action thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre. In exchange for political asylum, Polish defector Leiser (Christopher Jones) agrees to return behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of the British Security Chief that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament ..read more »
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from 380 members
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The Wrong Box
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Nanette Newman, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Comedy set in Victorian times about a group bet on who'll be the last to die. A veritable who's-who of the sixties British comedy scene, 'The Wrong Box' concerns two brothers (John Mills and Ralph Richardson) who are the last surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up many years ..read more »
63%
from 415 members
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Khartoum
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
Biopic chronicling the last years of General Gordon (Charlton Heston). In 1883, Gordon takes charge of the British army against the Arab forces in the Sudan, led by the charismatic and bloodthirsty Mahdi (Laurence Olivier). A mutual respect grows between the two leaders, as the conflict grows in ..read more »
67%
from 729 members
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The 300 Spartans- Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker
Director: Rudolph Maté
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A colourful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. King Leodinas (Richard Egan), with the help of locals, tries to stop the attack of thousands of Persian invaders led by King Xerxes (David Farrar).
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Exodus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Alexandra Stewart, Ralph Richardson
Director: Otto Preminger
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In 1947, Israel struggles for independence as the European Jewish survivors of Nazi death camps migrate to new lands. Leader of the Haganah Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) employs moderate methods to ensure his people's rights. While he battles to gain partition in Palestine, a romance develops between ..read more »
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from 704 members
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Smiley
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Ralph Richardson
Director: Anthony Kimmins
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1950s family comedy set in Australia following a mischievous young boy who dreams of owning a bicycle. To get the money for his bike, Smiley (Colin Petersen) does a few different odd jobs but always ends up getting into trouble. His alcoholic father makes matters worse when he spends Smiley's ..read more »
74%
from 10 members
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Richard III
(1955)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Soon after Edward IV is crowned King, his brother, Richard, a hunchback, twisted in mind as well as body, starts scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins Lady Anne and then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence, later organising his death. But even after his coronation, ..read more »
65%
from 888 members
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The Holly And The Ivy
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Maureen Delany, Celia Johnson, Hugh Williams
Director: George More O'Ferrall
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Classic post-war drama starring Ralph Richardson as Martin Gregory, a clergyman whose commitment to his religious duties leads him to neglect his family. Things come to a head at the family's Christmas gathering. The film also stars Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton and Denholm Elliott.
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from 217 members
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Sound Barrier
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Ann Todd
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play. Ralph Richardson stars as an aircraft maunfacturer whose all-consuming passion with making the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and almost destroys him and the rest of his family. Also starring Lean's wife, ..read more »
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from 155 members
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Outcast Of The Islands
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate:
Adapted from The Joseph Conrad novel of the same name, 1952’s inimitable Outcast Of The Islands, directed by Oscar® winning director Carol Reed (The Third Man, Oliver!), feature Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) as Willems and Ralph Richardson (Peer Gynt, Falstaff) as Lingard. Peter ..read more »
56%
from 36 members
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The Heiress
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Olivia De Havilland
Director: William Wyler
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Classic drama based on the novel 'Washington Square' by Henry James and starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland. Catherine Sloper (de Havilland) is a naive young woman and heiress to a considerable fortune, who is swept off her feet by the charming Morris Townsend (Clift) in 19th century ..read more »
73%
from 637 members
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The Fallen Idol
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Dora Bryan
Director: Carol Reed
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Carol Reed's award-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story told primarily from a child's perspective. Philippe (Bobby Henrey) is the young son of a diplomat and he idolises Baines (Ralph Richardson), his father's butler. When Baines' wife is found murdered and Baines is implicated, ..read more »
70%
from 886 members
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Anna Karenina
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Marie Lohr, Michael Gough, Ralph Richardson
Director: Julien Duvivier
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Alexander Korda's screen adaptation of Tolstoy's novel starring Vivien Leigh. Anna Karenina (Leigh) is asked to come to Moscow to help sort out her brother's marital problems. On the train from St. Petersburg she befriends the Countess Vronsky who is met at the station by her son Colonel Vronsky. ..read more »
60%
from 354 members
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The Day Will Dawn
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Griffith Jones, Hugh Williams, Ralph Richardson
Director: Harold French
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Terence Rattigan pens this British wartime drama starring Hugh Williams, Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr. British journalist Colin Metcalfe (Williams) becomes foreign correspondent in Norway just as Hitler invades Poland in 1939. On the way to Norway, his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, but ..read more »
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from 50 members
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The Four Feathers
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, Allan Jeayes
Director: Zoltan Korda
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Classic British adventure story of Harry Feversham (John Clements), a British officer, who resigns his commission on the eve of a battle in the Sudan. He is then given four white feathers by his friends and fiancée as a symbol of cowardice. Determined to win back his honour, Feversham exposes ..read more »
65%
from 623 members
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Q Planes
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Frank Fox, Sandra Storme, Hay Petrie
Director: Arthur B. Woods, Tim Whelan
Certificate:
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Wartime spy comedy starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Valerie Hobson. Scotland Yard's Major Hammond (Richardson) is called in to investigate the disappearance of several missing British planes. Teaming up with dashing pilot Tony McVane (Olivier), Hammond discovers that enemy agents are ..read more »
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from 73 members
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The Divorce Of Lady X
(1938)
Starring: Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon
Director: Tim Whelan
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Logan (Laurence Olivier) is a young lawyer who allows a stranded stranger (Merle Oberon) to spend the night in his apartment. She leaves him a card reading 'Goodbye, Madame X'. When his old friend Lord Mere (Ralph Richardson) contacts him the next day, wishing to sue for divorce because he's ..read more »
66%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Things To Come
(1936)
Starring: Maurice Braddell, Ralph Richardson, Derrick De Marney
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future -- and the screenplay (in conjunction with Lajos Biro) of this epic science fiction tale, but it was producer Alexander Korda who framed the terms on which it is presented, ..read more »
68%
from 643 members
Not available for rental
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The Return Of Bulldog Drummond
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Joyce Kennedy
Director: Walter Summers
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Retired British military officer Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond (Ralph Richardson) is the leader of the 'Black Clan', a secret alliance crusading to free England of crime by expelling foreign undesirables. When World Peace Conference delegate Brunel is assassinated it is up to Drummond and co. to ..read more »
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from 28 members
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Roland Young, Edward Chapman
Director: Lothar Mendes
Certificate:
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Two heavenly observers decide to bestow magical powers on a mild mannered draper's assistant. At first the young man uses his powers to woo the woman of his dreams, but after a while he finds that people are trying to exploit him. He decides to take it upon himself to assert moral authority, but ..read more »
69%
from 131 members
Not available for rental
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Ralph Richardson facts
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